# burakorkmez/mern-chat-app

Real Time Chat App | MERN && Socket.io && JWT

Repository: https://github.com/burakorkmez/mern-chat-app
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mern-chat-app
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-08-16T08:20:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 26/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 67
- inputs: {"age_days": 946, "days_push": 747, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1100, forks 320 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:35.503955+00:00)

## What it is
A full-stack real-time chat application built with the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) and Socket.io. It serves as a companion project to a YouTube tutorial, demonstrating JWT authentication, online user status, and Zustand state management.

## Use cases
- build a real-time chat app with mern and socket.io
- learn jwt authentication and authorization in a full-stack project
- example of real-time messaging with online user status
- starter template for a react node chat application
- learn zustand global state management in react
- follow a tutorial to build and deploy a chat app for free

## When to choose
- you want a complete, working reference implementation of a MERN chat app
- you are following the accompanying YouTube tutorial and want the source code
- you need a starting point for a real-time messaging project with Socket.io and JWT auth

## When to avoid
- you need a production-grade, hardened chat platform with scaling and moderation features
- you want a library or SDK to embed chat into an existing app rather than a standalone application
- you prefer a stack other than MERN or a different state management approach

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: websocket, auth, state-management, chat-interface
- domain: web-development, chatbots, messaging-platforms, tutorials
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: mern-stack, socket-io, jwt, zustand, tailwindcss, real-time-messaging, tutorial-project, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- burakorkmez/mern-chat-app (main) score 26

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:35.503955+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:45:47.018866+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/burakorkmez/mern-chat-app (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:35.503955+00:00, sha 6a7f55aef644)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.